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It continues to be a bumpy ride for JVC. Extensive cost-cutting has improved its profitability, but according to the company’s first half year financials, its consumer electronics business remains under pressure. JVC’s ce business has declined year-on-year in Japan. Sales of hard disk camcorders are up, but it not enough to offset poor LCD TV [...]

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UK media sector market research firm Understanding and Solutions predicts that UK consumers will be quick to adopt HD packaged media, and that Blu-ray will hold the commercial advantage over HD DVD. Managing director Jim Bottoms says “HD will succeed in Europe reasonably quickly. The consumer is already being sold the benefits by broadcasters and [...]

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Sharp has reported record-breaking figures in its half-year financials. The company announced a 14.3 percent year-on-year leap in sales of its AV and mobile products, at 587.9 billion yen, while net sales reached 1,465.6 billion yen, up 9.7 percent compared to the same period last year. Sales of LCD were 506.2 billion yen, up 25 [...]

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Popular import gaming site Lik-Sang.com has closed down, blaming Sony Computer Entertainment Europe which has launched multiple legal actions against it. Sony insists that the retailer infringed its trade marks, copyright and design rights. The closure follows a recent high court action which branded its Asian PSP imports to the UK illegal. Sony maintains the [...]

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Sky’s newest high definition TV channel, The History Channel HD, begins broadcasting today. Transmitting from 8am until 2am daily, on Sky Guide channel 545, it promises to offer a different schedule to its standard definition sibling. Programmes include the UK premieres of Engineering an Empire, Warrior Empire: The Mughals, and The Sahara, as well as [...]

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Sony UK has already confirmed to avzombie.com that it will not introduce a Blu-ray player in the UK until the PlayStation 3 has launched next year, now Sony US has delayed (once again) the appearance of its infamous BDP-S1 (pictured) in the US. The model was due to appear in November. The company is now [...]

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Specialist AV equipment calibration maker Sencore and BADA (the British Audio-video Dealers Association) will be running ISF and HAA training courses in the UK this November. The courses, held under the umbrella title ‘Maximizing home theatre performance’, take place over four days from November 7-10, at the B and W Group building, Dale Road, Worthing, [...]

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In its third quarter financials, LG Electronics reported improvements to sales and earnings. Sales leapt 4.5 percent to 6.054 trillion Won from the 5.796 trillion won of the previous quarter, while operating profit rose 3.5 percent to 197.2 billion won. The move forward was propelled by strong turns from its mobile and display arms (“primarily [...]

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